January
4, 2003 - Confessions
of a Dangerous MindGeorge
Clooney's directoral
debut, starring Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, Sam Rockwell and George
Clooney.Television
made him famous,
but his biggest hits happened off screen. This is a story of a
legendary
showman's double life -- television producer by day and CIA assassin by
night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited
by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. The film
marks
George Clooney's directoral debut and showcases a breakthrough
performance
by Sam Rockwell. The film also stars Drew Barrymore, Rutger
Hauer,
George Clooney and Julia Roberts. Charlie Kaufman ("Being John
Malkovich")
wrote the script, adapted from the cult-classic and unauthorized
autobiography
by Chuck Barris.

Special Guests
George Clooney & Sam Rockwell

February 1,
2003 - Gods
and Generals - NOTE: Each member planning to attend this
event
MUST RSVP.Director Ron
Maxwell's epic
screen adaptation of Jeff Shaara's heralded, best-selling novel,
starring
Jeff Daniels, Robert Duvall and Stephen Lang, is a dramatic look at the
Civil War -- America's bloodiest conflict, in which more than 620,000
lives
were lost. A prequel to the acclaimed screen drama, GETTYSBURG,
also
directed by Ron Maxwell, the film is based on events which are sweeping
in scope and made all the more compelling by the human-scaled drama it
depicts. A moving portrayal of a nation divided, GODS AND
GENERALS
begins in early 1861 and continues through 1863, climaxing with the
stunning
Battle of Chancellorsville. The film illuminates heroes from both
sides of the war, such as Colonel Joshua Chamberlain (JEFF DANIELS), a
professor at Maine's Bowdoin College who gave up a promising academic
career
to enlist in the Union army and then went on to become one of the
North's
finest military leaders.

March 8,
2003 - To
End All WarsDirector
David L. Cunningham's
film, based on the experiences of POW survivor, Ernest Gordon, is a
visceral
story of what hope means to a group of Allied soldiers imprisoned by
the
Japanese in a remote region of Thailand during World War II.
Characters
quickly develop into personalities both likable and unappealing, and
their
rapid humanization is the basis of the film's elevation from a bloody
atrocity-fest
into a meaningful meditation on the triumph of man's spirit. The
film stars Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Carlyle, Ciaran McMenamin, Mark
Strong,
Yugao Saso, Sakae Kimura and Shu Nakajima. BRIAN GODAWA is the
sole
writer of the screenplay.Winner of
the Grand Prize
of the Heartland Film Festival.Running
Time: 117
MINUTES.

March 18,
2003 - Why
Vivaldi?Local
Film-maker, Teddy
Grouya, will conduct a screening of his triple award-winning Docu-Film,
WHY VIVALDI? and will also remain in attendance for an after-screening
Q-and-A session.Running
Time: 70 MINUTES.

Special Guest

Teddy Grouya

April, 12,
2003 - Mud
Season Winner of 10
Festival Awards,
this is Anthony Andrew Hall's first feature film. Hall is an
Actor's
Director and, under his direction, all three principal actors in this
film
won 1999 Los Angeles MethodFest awards. Mud Season has also won a
couple of best picture awards. It is a Vermont tale of murder, of
love, of conflict and learning.Running
Time: 106
MINUTES.

Mr. Hall
says, "It is the
responsibility of the filmmaker to tell stories which connect
emotionally
with the audience for whom the film was intended and if it reaches
others
as well, so much the better. We have the ability to communicate
with
large numbers of people, to give them something they lack or need, and
we must do so with substance, charm and style."

Mr. Hall
will be in attendance
and will remain for a Q. and A. Session following the screening.

May 3,
2003 - 9:00 a.m.,
Camelot Theatres - The
Invisible
Collection, Italian Film, 2002.Introduction
to film by
Dr. David Kaminsky.The film is
a clever thriller,
combining social comedy and "whodunit" in classic Hollywood style.RUNNING
TIME: 95 Minutes

June 7,
2003 - 9:00 a.m.,
Camelot Theatres - THE BANK,
starring
Anthony LaPaglia and David Wenham.THE BANK is a gripping drama,
written and directed by Robert Connolly, set within the cut-throat
world
of high finance and banking -- a world where millions can be made and
lost
in seconds and lives can be destroyed just as easily. Anthony
LaPaglia
is chillingly convincing as bank CEO, Simon O'Reilly, the type who
gives
banks a bad name, cutting costs and increasing profits no matter what
the
consequences. Under pressure from his bank's board of directors,
O'Reilly employs a mathematics genius, Jim Doyle (played by David
Wenham),
whose system for predicting the stock market is near completion and,
once
perfected, will be worth billions to those who control it.There is
intrigue, human
tragedy and revenge aplenty, even a little romance, not to mention a
well-crafted
storyline full of suspense and a heart-pounding finale -- nail-biting
drama
at its best.RUNNING
TIME: 103
MINUTES

July 12,
2003 - 9:00
a.m., Camelot Theatres - MARION
BRIDGE,
starring Molly Parker, Rebecca Jenkins and Stacy Smith.MARION BRIDGE made its world
premiere at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival and won Best
First
Feature.The film
speaks volumes
about sibling and parental relationships with a beautifully realized
tale
of loss, healing and humor.RUNNING
TIME: 90 Minutes

August
2, 2003
- 9:00 a.m., Camelot Theatres - EL BOLA,
starring Alberto Jimenez, Juan Jose Ballesta, Manuel Moron and Pablo
Galan.winner
of over 30 international awards.Winner
of over 30 international awards, the film is a powerful drama whose
central
character is a 12-year-old boy with a dark, disturbing secret and no
friends
-- that is, until Alfredo moves into the neighbourhood, offering
friendship,
hope and joy.RUNNING
TIME: 88 Minutes

Special Program
Eventpresented
by:Camelot
TheatresAmerican
Cinemathequedesertfilmsociety&The
Palm Springs
InternationalFestival
of Short
Films

September
6, 2003
- 9:00 a.m. AND 6:30 p.m. - The
Best
of the CLERMONT
FERRAND
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL.NOTE:
There are
TWO Program Performances. There will be a coffee & muffin
reception
before the morning program, and the evening program will present a wine
& cheese reception prior to introductions, with dessert served
after
the film presentation.Considered
the "Cannes"
of Short Films, the Clermont Ferrand is the World's largest and most
distinguished
Short Film Festival, and this presentation includes the "Best of the
2003
French National Competition Shorts (6 shorts)" and "Best of
International
Shorts (4 shorts)."

September
13, 2003 -
9:00 a.m., Camelot Theatres - LOVE
THE HARD WAY, starring Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Jon
Seda,
August Diehl, Pam Grier and Katherine Moennig.This is a story of a petty
thief who meets an innocent young woman and brings her into his world
of
crime, while she teaches him the lessons of enjoying life and being
loved..RUNNING
TIME: 104
Minutes.

October
4, 2003 - 9:00
a.m., Camelot Theatres - GLOOMY
SUNDAY.Set
in Budapest in the thirties, a restaurant owner hires a pianist to play
in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with a beautiful
waitress
who inspires one of the men to compose his song, Gloomy Sunday, which
is
first loved and then feared for its melancholic melody triggers a chain
of suicides. This "ménage à trois is sent
off-kilter
when another man, Hans, falls in love with the waitress as well.RUNNING
TIME: 112 MinutesLanguage:
GermanSubtitles:
EnglishCountry:
Germany/Hungary

November
1, 2003
- 9:00 a.m., Camelot Theatres - TOGETHER.Listen
to an extraordinary, classical soundtrack in this stirring drama of the
power of music and the importance of family in a film full of warmth
and
humour which also discloses a subtle critique of today's China and its
pursuit of modern things.RUNNING
TIME: 116 MinutesLanguage:
MandarinSubtitles:
EnglishCountry:
China/South Korea

Q&A
following the screening, led by Writer/Director James Hill & Paul
Michael (Lead Actor)

Winner
of the Best Picture (English Language) award at the Italian Film
Festival,
this modern-day, opera-like tale stars veteran Broadway star Paul
Michael
as Enzo Morelli, a once-promising opera singer who has recently sold
everything
he owns and moved into the very slum area he sweeps -- a sacrifice made
to pay for his son's tuition at Harvard, to keep a promise made to his
late wife. Following graduation, Joey (played by Michael
Cavaliere)
comes home with attitude and a rich girlfriend, only to learn the real
lessons in life. The ensuing events complete the story in both a
heartwarming and heartbreaking way, linking the two to a controversial
yet realistic conclusion, which continues to ignite debate over
political
correctness.RUNNING
TIME: 109 MinutesLanguage:
English